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"You can inform me, then," said Massinger, "as to the exact manner in which the war commenced."
"I fancy I can. This Waitara block which you have heard about has been the _causa belli_, in every sense of the word. The Governor, egged on by the Provincial Council of Auckland and the land-buying party in the General Assembly, at length consented to purchase it from Teira."